Why the Off-Season Matters When hunting season ends, most people pack away their rifles and gear. But the best shooters know that skill fades when practice stops. The off-season is your secret weapon for improving focus, accuracy, and confidence before
The South Georgia Field to Feast Tradition For generations, hunters across South Georgia have carried on a proud tradition of turning game harvested in the field into unforgettable holiday meals. From whitetail deer to wild turkey, the act of bringing
Foreigner wasn’t singing about ammunition in its song “Cold as Ice,” but the sentiment that warmer is better is certainly applicable to firearm projectiles. As with people, ammo doesn’t perform as well when given the cold shoulder. Although ammunition is
Another summer has had its moment in the sun. It’s time to pack the really big beach bag with vacations, umbrellas, suntan lotion and Frisbees and replace it with a leaf bag replete with pumpkins, football games and Thanksgiving planning.
Although the deer and the antelope play on the range, hunters need to spend some time on a different kind of range to bag the aforementioned prey and other assorted members of the animal kingdom that remain favorite targets. There
Pigeons and doves share membership in the Columbidae family but fly in different circles. The larger of the two, pigeons, favor more urban settings and have an apparent affinity for such stationary objects as benches and statues, while their smaller
The targets differ in competitive shooting versus hunting, with one inanimate and stationary, while the other is alive and occasionally moving. At the end of the barrel, however, they both are a shooter’s objective. If you want to sharpen your
When it comes to Superman, steel gets the nod over brass. After all, it’s the Man of Steel, not the Man of Brass. When it comes to bullet casings, however, while both have their strengths, brass is the true super
There is some ammunition whose true “identity” is masked behind a nickname or trade lingo and is known only to those on the firing lines. Take, for instance, the Sierra BlitzKung (SBK), a cartridge with a plastic tip inserted into
Practice makes perfect, but there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence pointing to great performances in rehearsals not being followed by the like when the curtain goes up. If that happens in hunting, that could result in an empty spot on the
